Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are several ways in which a novel based on such a premise could run rapidly downhill. It could sour into morbidity or fist-shaking stridency or traipse into a misty, philosophical meadow, where every delicious moment is the first one of the rest of our lives. This tightly constructed first novel makes no such blunders. English Author Gillian Martin uses Hannah's perverse decision as an occasion not to settle old scores but to examine some unexamined lives...
Hannah wants the chance but, as Martin shows, cannot have it. A brief affair with a charming but faithless acquaintance ends badly-and produces most of the novel's few patches of uncertain writing. Hannah's lover "begins to play on her body like a musician on an instrument" - a cliche that strikes a discordant note no matter what the tune...
Based on Joanne Greenberg's 1964 novel, it gives an earnest, intelligent account of Deborah Blake, a teen-ager who returns from suicidal fantasy to a precarious willingness to give life another try. It is a success story, but a measured, qualified one (the title line is the psychiatrist's reply when Deborah complains that reality is painful and difficult compared with the security of the imaginary desert gods who rule her sick mind). The same thing can be said of the movie: it leaves one feeling respectful but not deeply impressed or moved...
Ierulli's two courses are rather different from each other: one is on the 19th century English novel, while the other is on genocide in history. She said she decided to enroll in the literature course because she is very interested in the English novel. The genocide course--well, she wondered at first why people would take a genocide course, and doesn't really offer an explanation for her own initial interest in it. But she said she finds it very interesting, and very important: it deals with something she believes people should know about to avoid repetitions...
...Esquire and The New Yorker. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Bend Sinister (1947) earned high praise but few royalties. With the American edition of Lolita in 1958, Nabokov be came an unpronounceable household name.* It now seems incredible that only a generation ago a sexually unexplicit novel about a middle-aged man and a pubescent girl caused a national scandal. Yet the notoriety put the book on the bestseller list and Nabokov on the road to financial independence...